{"id":3165,"date":"2009-11-14T06:18:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T06:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2013-08-27T05:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:01:35","slug":"the-university-of-iowa-be-remarkable-courtney-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"The University of Iowa &#8211; Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/be-remarkable\/portfolio\/people\/parker-c.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Iowa &#8211; Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Iowa<br \/>\n2009-06-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Po Li Loo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers\u2019 Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other passions.\u00a0 Instead of penning poetry, the 2008 graduate found herself resurrecting the UI Black Student Union (BSU) and cultivating cross-cultural partnerships across campus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Parker has developed leadership skills at the UI, but her time here has also taught her how to be comfortable in her own skin. <strong>She grew up in a predominantly white, upper middle-class area in Connecticut, and had felt insecure about her mixed heritage. She sees herself first as an African American, but she also has English, Jewish, and Native American roots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting that most people don\u2019t look at me and recognize me as being African American,\u201d she says. \u201cBut you can\u2019t really spend much time with me without knowing that I\u2019m black, without knowing that I\u2019m Jewish.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her commitment to helping students transcends the UI. She was accepted by <em>Teach for America<\/em> and headed to North Carolina after graduation. The organization recruits recent graduates to teach for two years in rural and urban schools around the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/be-remarkable\/portfolio\/people\/parker-c.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa &#8211; Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers\u2019 Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20,25],"tags":[1176,1175,10699],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-courtney-parker","tag-po-li-loo","tag-university-of-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}